A DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ENHANCING TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS UNDER THE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE ROI ET

Abstract

This research aims to; (1) study current conditions, desirable conditions, and the needs to enhance change leadership of Heads of Departments (2) Develop the program to enhance change leadership of Heads of Departments. The research method was divided into 2 phases: Phase 1 was to study the current conditions, desirable conditions, and the needs to enhance change leadership of Heads of Departments. The population consisted of 2,499 school administrators, department heads, and teachers. There were 340 samples, school directors head of department and teachers, with the sample size determined using Krejcie and Morgan’s table and selected via stratified random sampling. Phrase 2 was the development of the program to strengthen transformational leadership of Heads of Departments. There were 5 experts obliged to evaluate the suitability and possibility of the program. The research instruments consisted of an interview form and a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, which yielded reliability coefficients of 0.91 for the current state and 0.93 for the desirable state and assessment. The statistics in data analysis consisted of average, percentage and standard deviation. The PNI of the research shown that.

The result revealed that:

1. The current conditions of transformational leadership of Heads of Departments showed that the overall was at a low level ( =2.37). The desirable conditions of the change leadership of Heads of Departments was overall in the highest level ( = 4.54). The needs assessment to the development of the change leadership of Heads of Departments which ordered of the needs assessment from more to less were inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, and idealized influence. 2. There were 5elements of the program to strengthen transformational leadership of Heads of Departments including the principle, the objectives, the contents, the development processes, and the evaluation. The contents divided into 4 modules. Based on the expert evaluation results of transformational program’s suitability and possibility was at the highest level.